The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-08-06


What Saw at Fair.-A correspondent of
the Rural Press gives his opinion of county fair,
| as follows:
81 saw the races. saw them all the afternoon
| I went with the full determination that If there
was good in them 1 would find and enjoy that
good. But, alas saw it not. 0fcourse, / must
be wrong; for when so many Of the best people
find SO much that is praiseworthy in them, the
| good must be there. / must have been born with
| a sense lacking-the sense of horse racing-for
could find no sense in it.
"But we want to speed our horses we want to
| breed from those Of most wind, and bottom, and
speed"
"Then run against time, and all this costly
track and s0ulkillipg excitemant and loss of time"
"Pshaw there would be no interest, no COMPETE
zion, effort, and the whole fabric Of your fair
| would dwindle to nonentity."
"But about what saw. The first thing saw
man being dragged over the sand, behind his
broken cart and his foaming steed. A wild cry
of excitement ran through the multitude, for we
are a sympathetic people. There was hurrying
| to and fro the immense crowd rolled like the
heaving pillows when the roaring winds Of an
| eastern storm strike the waters. There was
| mounting in hot haste; the steed and horsemen
| flew to the scene Of the mishap. There was sill
ence for brief moment; brave men and fair
women speaking with bated breath, when word
was passed along that "the mans back was broken
nearly then, che is not much hurt, only badly
bruised and barked y then, che is all right, and
will soon take another cart and try again" Bet
ter luck next time.
"Stil stayed on, hoping to see better things
ere long. There was an auction-selling "pools !"
whatever that may be am sure I don't know
| l asked county friend, but he was ignorant as
about it. He seemed to thinh it some kind of a
"se, and little boy cooked up his eye in very
funny manner, thrusting his tongue into his left
| cheek, and said "You bet." But this never do.
olive, five, eight, ten, ten, ten dollars, and sold
to Mr.. A.; namo your horse. First choice, two,
three, three, five five, five dollars-sold to Mr. B.;
| what horse ?" and thus on at intervals all the
| afternoon. L hope there was no gambling or bet
ting in all this; at least I didn't see any money
| put up or change hands. Somebody says: "He
who is willing to take money for which he returns
H0shopest equivalent is not on the road to the
| highest level of morality" But dare say he was
an old fogy anyway, and lived in the remote ages.
"But soon other races were made up and run, and
others and still others to the long, dismal, bitter
| end. I saw couple of wires stretched across the
track which at first thought were for the horses
| to Jump over, as they have the "Flying Dutch
mani believe, and "Lightfoot" and so on, but
| I think they must have been for some other pur-
| pose as none of them attempted the feat.
| "When the first racer swung round the cir
Gle there would come up an awful yell from
| the crowd, and would look round to see what
| had broken loose, but soon saw it was only be-
| cause his horse out ran the others by length
| or two. Pshaw I'll warrant Bonner's horse
| could do even better, and if he could would
not a snap, nor yell like an idiot
Cline, three hours and a quarter" says some
| body they call judge in high, airy building,
and the rabbe laugh. ''Three minutes and q
quarter" says the Judge, thinking he had made
| q mistake.
"There were a great number of people to see this
| little bit of fun, fair women and brave men;
| ID inL nd khoro
likely 25 more that didn't count. A few dirty
oaths went hurting through the otherwise pure
| air, but the assemblage was quite curt and polite
| Some of the best citizens were there; was there
myself. I saw, or tried to see, all, but alas, in
vain. went away with my fingers in my mouth,
and my spirit in the dust. l was disappointed,
| detected, sad and despairing, without joy and
| without hope. For know that the county must
have horses it is, in fact, her greatest need.
| The worthy president has made diigent inquiry
Che must, unfortunately, have little taste for
horse racing I, or he would have gone himself)
and hears of no fighting, no quarreling, no drunk
enness, at the race-course. Would it be work of
| supererogation to say the same of other portions
of the fair grounds?
"I left the with thoughts too full for
utterance, and returned to the pavilion. Here,
| indeed, was beauty, and the incubus was soon
swept from my mind. Here was nature, here was
art, here was culture and skill here was wonder
full advancement and progress, and my soul was
satisfied. I said in the fullness of spirit, "Our
| fair is grand success"
Property Transfers In BALTIC. County,
Deeds, Leases, Mortgages Bills of Sale, ETC., re-
ceived for record in the Office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county:
| DEEDS AND ASSIGNMENTS.
| Geo. Ewalt & wife to B. D. Callahan b wife.
| VIM. Smyth to M. J. Smyth, &c.
| VIM. Jones & wife to Ida V. Mitchell.
| VIM. III. Oliver to L. B. French.
VIM. H. Oliver to E. 7. Luckily.
w. p. Whyte, trus. to A. A. Lepper.
Christian Devries, trustee, to E. J. Bond, 3.
| Meyer Stein, &C., to E. ]. Bond.
| NJ. E.. Smith to J. R. Wilhelm.
Elias Hahn to A. A. Reinhart, 2.
E. j. Bond 6 wife to P. L. Thorn.
Edward Rider d wife TO Thos. +. Matthews VT.
| N. NJ. Smith, &C., to c. Langmann, &C.,
| VIM. Ii. Straus to Francis Denmead, Jr.
r. L. Banks & husband to r. S. Culbreth.
R. S. Culbreth to Andrew Banks.
| Geo. R. Gather to Geo. R. Gather, Jr.
| G. R. Gather, Jr., to S. G. Rosenstock.
| T. II. Shriver, trus., to Robt. Lawson wife.
| E. J. Bond & wife to Jos. ii. Judik.
| S. S. Clayton to Home for Incurables.
| D. G. Mcintosh h wife to Z. ]. Bond
G. NJ. Bosley to VIM. S. Dunphy.
J. @. A. House, ct al, to R. E. johnson.
Chas E. Wilcox, atty, to Jas. W. Wolvington.
Woodberry B. A. No. 2 to R. Gladfelter.
J. c. Hempel & wife to L. w. Kehs.
| J. C. Hempel & wife to VIM. J. Leiben.
| L. j. Bond wife to James B. Chastian.
ASSIGNMENT OF MORTGAGES.
JAS NJ. Davis to P. G.. Erdman.
| Edward Johnston to r. E. Johnston.
| MORTGAGES.
| E. T. Luckily to Waverly B. A., $3.50.
| L. B. French husband to Waverly b. A., $3.50.
| Tob TIr;o oh O. ifa 70 Mnnvar
E. j. Bond & wife to M. Stein, &C., 81, 900.
E. J. Bond & wife to C. Devries, trus., SIG 1867 07.
| G. M. Manager wife to David Logan, &C., Sc, 600.
Reuben Gadfelter to Jas. M. Davis, $500.
| M. j. Wine to Jas. M Davis, $500.
| Andrew Banks & wife to Eutaw S. Banks, So, OOO.
Andrew Banks & wife to JAS P. Hoffecker, $500.
| A. L. Gorter & wife TO G. NJ. w. Hutton, SS,O00.
Talbot Jones & wife to Henry Smith, ST. 5O.
W. S. Dunphy & vito Home P.M.L.& B.A. 5000.
| Home for incurables to Eutaw S. Blk, 900.
E. J. Bond to D. G. Mcintosh, 81, 900.
John Fryfoge to Randallstown B. A., $500.
| BILL OF SALE.
| W. G. Rodgers to Christian Devries, trus., 81 500.
| RELEASES.
Christopher Lipps to Catharina Laumann, &c.
| w. r. Sanderson to John Ulrich.
| Daniel Greenbaum to John G.. Schwind.
Lennox Birckhead to Eliza Lee.
J. P. Hofecker to Andrew Banks & wife.
| Geo. r. Gather, Jr., to Geo. r. Gather.
Safe Deposit Co. to Daniel Alder.
A. " Kindig to H. W. Nottingham.
Home P. B. A. to VIM. S. Dunphy.
Jesse F. Ely, &C., to Elijah J. Bond.
McKim's Hill B. A. to VIM. II. Oliver.
| R. E. Johnston to J. @. A. House, &c.
| County Roads and Supervisors.-A cor
respondent writing to the Massachusetts Ptoton'an
on this subject, says: "There is hardly any place
in our country roads but where there is uphill and
down, springy places and soft places; and if they
have a tile drain run through the centre OF the
road. about four feet deep, with two-inch tile,
thew would be remedied very much in muddy
weather. Of course, it has been stated, this draw.
ing back year after year of what has washed off
of soil and sand on the side of the road and put
ting it in the middle of the road again is worse
than nothing. There are often many places on
our roads where there is gravel, and the road may
be helped greatly by blowing it up and carting it
down and filling the low places. There is very
little discretion used in road repairing and road
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